ELLISVILLE – On the strength of five straight victories, the Jones County Junior College Bobcats have moved into this week’s NJCAA/JCfootball.com poll.

The Bobcats, 5-2, are ranked No. 16 in this week’s poll, which was released on Tuesday. JCJC, 5-0 in the South Division, whipped Southwest Mississippi, 40-21, last week to clinch a playoff berth. The Bobcats were ranked No. 14 in the preseason poll, but lost their first two games of the season and fell out of the rankings.

Blinn College and Navarro College, both from Texas, are both 6-0 and are ranked, first and second, respectively, in this week’s poll. Fort Scott Community College (Kan.) is 6-0 and ranked No. 3.

Mississippi Gulf Coast, 6-1, is rated No. 6, while East Mississippi, also at 6-1, is ranked No. 10. Pearl River and Northwest, both at 4-3, received votes in this week’s poll.

In this week’s JCGrid-wire/JCfootball.com poll, the Bobcats are listed in the “Others to Watch” category. Blinn and Navarro are also ranked No.’s 1 and 2, respectively, in that poll.

In the JCGrid-wire/JCfootball.com poll, Gulf Coast is No. 6 and East Mississippi is No. 7. Co-Lin is listed in the “Others to Watch” division.

For a complete look at both polls, go to www.njcaa.org and to www.jcfootball.com.

Head coach Eddie Pierce’s Bobcats will tangle with North Division foe Mississippi Delta Community College, 3-4, at 2 p.m. on Saturday. It will be Homecoming on the JCJC campus.

The game will be televised on www.jcjc.tv with Lance Pittman doing the play-by-play and Mark Easley providing commentary. The game can be heard on WGDQ-FM, 93.1. The pregame show begins at 1:30 p.m.